Stefan Sagmeister was born in Austria and lives and works in New York. He has worked for the Rolling Stones, The Talking Heads, Lou Reed, The Guggenheim Museum and Levis. Exhibitions on Sagmeister's work have been mounted in New York, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Paris, Lausanne, Zurich, Vienna, Prague, Cologne and Berlin.

Sagmeister has earned Grammys for his iconic music packaging art (see his David Byrne CD covers). He also obtained a Lucky Strike Designer Award in 2009. There are two published monographs on his work, "Things i have learned in my life so far" (2008) and "Sagmeister, Made You Look" (2001).